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. The good news is that this does an excellent job of correcting the
long-term monotonic drift. However, residual shorter-term transient variations are not fully corrected and leave small (~0.2 psu)
quasi-monthly variations in the data. Of course we are working on this now, so we expect to have additional corrections to come along
as soon as we can.<br /><br />Along with the new DR drift correction, several changes are in the works for Level 2 (L2) science data products, including an improved
roughness model, and additional variables for the roughness and land corrections. These changes will be incorporated into the next
operational version of the processing code, V1.3, which may be ready for evaluation release in March. As we further process the data,
we will continue to investigate the bias between the data collected on the ascending passes (south to north) and the descending passes
(north to south). The differences have regional patterns and the global mean ascending-descending bias is about -0.2 psu. The source
is not yet understood. Click <a href=\'http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSurfaceSalinity/Aquarius\' target=\'blank\' style=\'color:006699\'>here</a> to link to Aquarius data.<br /><br />
The Aquarius sensor and the SAC-D observatory continue to perform well. We are about to reach the milestone of six months of
un-interrupted Aquarius data since the instrument commissioning sequence was finished on 25-Aug-11. Attached below is the 5.5-month
average composite global image through 08-Feb-12.<br /><br /><div style=\'font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:8px;\'>Presentations and Publications</div>
<a href=\'http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2012/sessionschedule.asp?SessionID=092#2/20/2012\' target=\'_blank\' style=\'color:006699\'>Science papers</a> were presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012,
Salt Lake City, including a focused session on Monday February 20th. An Aquarius <a href=\'http://www.microrad2012.org/microrad-technical-program.html\' target=\'_blank\' style=\'color:006699\'>special session</a>
is scheduled at the IEEE MicroRad meeting 5-9 March in Rome, Italy. Papers are submitted also for the <a href=\'http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012/\' target=\'_blank\' style=\'color:006699\'>European Geosciences Union General Assembly</a>
in Vienna (23-27 April) and the <a href=\'http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/colloquium/\' target=\'_blank\' style=\'color:006699\'>44th International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics</a>
in Belgium (7-11 May). Special sessions for salinity remote sensing are also planned for the <a href=\'http://www.igarss12.org/\' target=\'_blank\' style=\'color:006699\'>IEEE International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium</a>
in Munich (22-27 July).<br /><br />I submitted a Brief Report on Aquarius\' progress to EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union to be published shortly. Several of
us prepared a sidebar article on Aquarius to appear in the ocean salinity section of the <a href=\'http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/\' target=\'_blank\' style=\'color:006699\'>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society</a>
special issue later this year on State of the Climate 2011. Lastly, the proposal for a <a href=\'http://www.agu.org/journals/jc/\' target=\'_blank\' style=\'color:006699\'>Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans</a> special section
on salinity remote sensing science results has been approved, with submission deadline at the end of 2012.<br /><br />Please stay tuned for more information and I look forward to seeing you
at these conferences...<i>Gary Lagerloef, AquariusPrincipal Investigator</i></div></a>',525,475)){kind=link}
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